Police guard put in place for Redknapp

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HARRY REDKNAPP will have protection from Hampshire police and private minders when he returns to Fratton Park as manager of Southampton on Sunday. Redknapp left Portsmouth in November promising not to take the job at St Mary’s, and there are fears that he could be the target for some form of attack during the derby.

Officers, either uniformed or plain clothes, will remain close to Redknapp in the directors’ box or dugout, and may move him if the situation demands. “We are not a private protection scheme, but we have plans in case anything spills over,” Hampshire police said.